Headlines about telling you that Avatar: Fire and Ash is "legging out" better than its predecessor. There's a reason that language is being used. It's because when you do a direct comparison between the two films, it's clear that Fire and Ash is in significant...
It could be the end of the Avatar franchise for a very long time to come. James Cameron's third film has landed at the box office, and it's down about 40% in attendance thus far. James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash launched with an estimated $345 million worldwide...
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners exited its role as a financial backer of Paramount Skydance’s aggressive bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The news landed on the same info cycle as renewed public criticism from President Donald Trump aimed at Paramount’s new Ellison-led ownership orbit: an overlap that reads less like coincidence and more like a pressure point in a rapidly politicizing megadeal environment.
Zootopia 2 is a major hit in China, but it’s status as a top tier box office darling elsewhere is less formidable. In fact, the film just might sell less tickets than the original Zootopia did a decade ago in the States!
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have entered into a licensing partnership for generative artificial intelligence with Disney characters. The legalities of such a deal are likely to impact the future of entertainment forever.
Things are not looking good at the North American box office for 2025. In fact, it’s downright catastrophic.
“Wicked: For Good” has delivered a strong opening by any normal box office standard, but when measured against the explosive performance of 2024’s “Wicked,” the decline becomes clear almost immediately.
Netflix’s first-glance victory in the Warner Bros. Discovery auction is not just a colossal entertainment deal, it’s also a supposed, decisive defeat for the Ellison family’s ambitions to take control of CNN. Ultimately, the Netflix acquisition of WBD (not yet final and with major hurdles to go), may be a giant political battle over the future of entertainment.
Move over, superheroes. The next big entertainment era may have less capes and a whole lot more talking cartoon animals. It’s the 1930s all over again!
China’s long-standing love affair with talking-animal films has become one of the most reliable patterns in the global box office, repeatedly turning anthropomorphic stories into runaway hits. Disney first witnessed the phenomenon in a major way with The Lion King (2019), which roared to over $120 million in China thanks to its photorealistic animal cast and nostalgic appeal.
Is Blizzard attempting to resurrect a game that has refused to die? Are signs really pointing towards a new era of Heroes of the Storm?
Am I going to have to eat crow when I said that Zootopia 2 would not break $500 million globally in its first weekend? Well... probably not. But the Chinese zeal for Judy and Nick is so wild that anything just might be possible. And that's why, after having spoken...